Singapore legislation
Section 40
Section 40
Saving
(1)
The Minister may by regulations prescribe the transactions in which, despite anything in this Act, it is lawful to use any unit of the local customary weights and measures as may be specified in the Third Schedule and having the values defined therein.
(2)
The Minister may by order amend the Third Schedule by removing any unit of measurement of length, of area, of volume, of capacity, or of mass or weight, as the case may be.
(3)
Where any weighing or measuring instrument was being used for trade immediately before 1 January 2006 in compliance with this Act in force immediately before that date —
nothing in section 7 prevents the continued use for trade of that weighing or measuring instrument even though it does not have an Accuracy Label affixed to it; and
subject to subsection (4), nothing in section 7A or 7B prevents the weighing or measuring instrument from being affixed with a stamp or Accuracy Label even though no letter of pattern approval has been issued in respect of that weighing or measuring instrument.
(4)
Subsection (3)(b) does not apply to any weighing or measuring instrument specified by the Board in a notification published in the Gazette.